Useful links
GATA - Gold Anti Trust Action CommitteeBill Murphy and GATA have worked for years to improve tranparency in the global gold market and expose price fixing and manipulation. They've filed law suits, and pointed out shortcomings in the IMF's accounting for gold in central banks. GATA is gaining more and more credibility. In early 2006, a report by large French Bank Credit Agricole cited GATA's findings in great detail in Chapter IV of the Cheuvreux Report, and concluded they are "broadly correct." GATA keeps track of news stories around the globe with information about the gold market. Le Metropole CafeAfter following dozens of gold sites since 2000, this is the one that gets it right the most. It's a $199 pa subscription service, aimed at people fluent with the COMEX. There is a two week free trial available. Get used to spending twenty minutes a day here to get a firm sense of what's going on with the gold world, money supply, the general economy, and the shenanigans of the Federal Reserve. Only for serious investors. It's heavy going for beginners. The Global SpeculatorThe Global Speculator is dedicated to the subject of investing in the precious metals sector, especially in the Australian and North American markets. It covers both fundamentals and technicals (including charts) to assist precious metals investors with both targets and timing. The free monthly newsletter already reaches over 5000 subscribers. Troy Schwensen is one of the best informed researchers of the Australian gold market that we know. He takes his number-crunching research down to fine detail. Daily Reckoning AustraliaThe Daily Reckoning offers an independent and critical perspective on the Australian and global investment markets. The international version of Daily Reckoning has a following of around a million subscribers. It's good to see an Australian focused version has been created. You can subscribe for a daily review of ecomonic matters. Surbiton AssociatesSurbiton Associates keep track of production and ownership of Australian gold mines, covering 99% of all gold produced in Australia. They publish The Australian Gold Quarterly Review. It covers JV's, operating data and cash costs as well many other details of gold producers. If you need to know where Australia's gold production stands on a worldwide scale, or where a particular Australian Gold producer stands in comparison with other producers, Surbiton has the answer. Dr Sandra Close is a preeminent expert on the history of Australian Gold Mining and author of The Great Gold Renaissance, The Untold Story of the Modern Australian Gold Boom 1982-2002. As an investor, the reasons why Australian mines opened and closed, and the kinds of problems that they struck, is worth reading to help you ask the right questions about current sites now. The book covers the history of many Australian gold operations (many have come and gone); the creation of hedging contracts in the 1980's; changes in plant design, as well as three chapters on the development of the CIP process to extract gold. It's available from Surbiton. Published in 2002. There is nothing else like it on the history of the Australian gold sector.
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